hotel

«hotel» in Mova's school dictionary: a building where people pay to sleep and eat when they… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a hotel, hotels)

meaning for a pupil

A hotel is a building where people pay to sleep and eat when they are travelling or on holiday. tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life, families stay in hotels on trips; a hotel has a reception desk, rooms with keys or key cards, and often a restaurant or pool. In maths problems, hotels come up with prices per night and floors and room numbers. In safety: learn where the fire exits are, and stay with your adults. In Australia and New Zealand, «hotel» can also mean a pub. Phrases: stay at a hotel, check in, check out, hotel room, book a hotel.

examples

• We stayed at a hotel near the beach. tree →
• The hotel room had two beds and a view of the sea. tree →
• We checked in at the hotel reception. tree →
• A room at the hotel costs 80 dollars a night, so three nights cost 240 dollars. tree →
• Always find the fire exit when you arrive at a hotel. tree →
• The hotel had a swimming pool on the roof. tree →
• We are in the midst of Paris, in a great hotel. tree →

note

«A hotel» (usually, with «a»). Stress on the second syllable: ho-TEL. A motel is a hotel for drivers, where you park by your room. In maths, «per night» means for each night: multiply by the number of nights.

In the corpora

• Ruby asked «What was your hotel like?» and the friend changed the subject.
• And in Limerick, Aoife, whose family has little money, is invited to a rich classmate's party at a fancy hotel.
• Neither is a hotel.
• Staying with family instead of a hotel saves money: 5 nights at £80 is £400 saved.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «hotel» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.